docs: def load(self, path):
          """
          Load and return the corpus from the given path.
  
          Args:
              path (str): Path to the data set to load.
  
          Returns:
              Corpus: The loaded corpus
  
          Raises:
              IOError: When the data set is invalid, for example because required files (annotations, …) are missing.
          """
          # Check for missing files
          missing_files = self._check_for_missing_files(path)
  
          if len(missing_files) > 0:
              raise IOError('Invalid data set of type {}: files {} not found at {}'.format(
                  self.type(), ' '.join(missing_files), path))
  
          return self._load(path)